Glee, Dispatches and The Worst Place To Be Gay: Valentine’s Day TV picks

TV preview: Puck returning from juvie in Glee, and Uganda being revealed as the World’s Worst Place To Be Gay are Monday night’s TV picks.

Tonight’s pick of the day is Glee where the focus is on Valentine’s Day (Picture: Channel 4)Pick of the day: Glee, E4 9pm

Love is constantly ping-pong-ing round the Gleesters: Mr Schue wants Emma to come back to him; Finn and Sam want Rachel and Quinn to put out; Artie thinks he might want Brittany (urk). The focus for this Valentine’s Day, though, is Kurt, whose status as the only out kid at William McKinley is driving him to breaking point, prompting him to seek solace at a posh all-boys school. In other news, Puck returns from juvie, and gets back in the singing game with a version of Bob Marley’s One Love.

The World’s Worst Place To Be Gay, BBC3 9pm

That would be Uganda, says gay Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills. In his most serious programme yet, we’re a world away from Glee’s sugar-coated torment as he witnesses the reality of daily life as a homosexual in a country that may soon impose life imprisonment or the death penalty for being so. He also collides with the ignorant and horrifying opinions of the homophobes leading the persecution.

Dispatches: Lessons In Hate And Violence C4 8pm

Here’s another dose of grimness to offset today’s cheery romantic tidings but this time we’re much closer to home. Dispatches has gone undercover to investigate worrying allegations of teachers assaulting young children in Muslim schools in Britain, and suggestions that some of these schools are preaching messages of intolerance.

Film of the day: Basic Instinct ITV2 11.15pm

Feel like attacking romance with an ice pick? You’re in excellent company with this sensationally slick 1992 erotic thriller. A knickerless Sharon Stone infamously stars as racy novelist Catherine Tramell, a seductress who finds herself being investigated for murder – and many other things besides – by Michael Douglas’s froggy-bottomed detective.